18 Sep
2015
18 Sep
'15
11 a.m.
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> writes:
On 18 September 2015 at 13:35, Lars Brinkhoff <lars
at nocrew.org> wrote:
No, it was not Crusoe. I'm fairly sure it was VIA, and less sure it was
the C3. Maybe Cyrix? Whatever was current technology around 2002 I
guess.
I remember reading the rumour that the RISC instruction set was
accessible, and I contacted VIA about this. I got an email from someone
I gathered was a company executive, and I signed an NDA to get the
information. I got a paper document in the mail.
Unfortunately, a few years ago I cleaned out the room where the document
was stored. As I didn't think it was important at the time, I threw it
away.
I would love to provide a proper citation, but I searched the net and
couldn't find anything to back this up.
I believe the VIA C3 had an undocumented feature
to allow executing
the underlying RISC instructions.
[[Citation needed]]
I've never heard of anything like this. Are you perhaps thinking of
the Crusoe family chips?